Search-User Interface DesignMax WilsonSearch User Interfaces (SUIs) represent the gateway between people who have a task to complete, and the repositories of information and data stored around the world. Not surprisingly, therefore, there are many communities who have a vested interest i...Publication Date: 01/01/2011

Information Retrieval EvaluationDonna HarmanEvaluation has always played a major role in information retrieval, with the early pioneers such as Cyril Cleverdon and Gerard Salton laying the foundations for most of the evaluation methodologies in use today. The retrieval community has been extre...Publication Date: 01/01/2011

Search-Based ApplicationsGregory Grefenstette, Laura WilberWe are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing, communications, and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information, and generat...Publication Date: 01/01/2010

Online Multiplayer GamesWilliam Sims BainbridgeThis lecture introduces fundamental principles of online multiplayer games, primarily massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), suitable for students and faculty interested both in designing games and in doing research on them. The g...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

Multimedia Information RetrievalStefan RuegerAt its very core multimedia information retrieval means the process of searching for and finding multimedia documents; the corresponding research field is concerned with building the best possible multimedia search engines. The intriguing bit here is...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

Knowledge Management (KM) Processes in OrganizationsClaire McInerney, Michael E.D. KoenigKnowledge Management (KM) is an effort to increase useful knowledge in the organization. It is a natural outgrowth of late twentieth century movements to make organizational management and operations more effective, of higher quality, and more respon...Publication Date: 01/01/2011

Information ConceptsGary MarchioniniInformation is essential to all human activity, and information in electronic form both amplifies and augments human information interactions. This lecture surveys some of the different classical meanings of information, focuses on the ways that elec...Publication Date: 01/01/2010

Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information RetrievalDavid Carmel, Elad Yom-TovMany information retrieval (IR) systems suffer from a radical variance in performance when responding to users' queries. Even for systems that succeed very well on average, the quality of results returned for some of the queries is poor. Thus, it is ...Publication Date: 01/01/2010

Collaborative Web SearchMeredith Ringel Morris, Jaime TeevanToday, Web search is treated as a solitary experience. Web browsers and search engines are typically designed to support a single user, working alone. However, collaboration on information-seeking tasks is actually commonplace. Students work together...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

XML RetrievalMounia LalmasDocuments usually have a content and a structure. The content refers to the text of the document, whereas the structure refers to how a document is logically organized. An increasingly common way to encode the structure is through the use of a mark-u...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

Reading and Writing the Electronic BookCatherine MarshallDevelopments over the last twenty years have fueled considerable speculation about the future of the book and of reading itself. This book begins with a gloss over the history of electronic books, including the social and technical forces that have s...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

New Concepts in Digital ReferenceR. David LankesLet us start with a simple scenario: a man asks a woman "how high is Mount Everest?" The woman replies "29,029 feet." Nothing could be simpler. Now let us suppose that rather than standing in a room, or sitting on a bus, the man is at his desk and th...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

Hypermedia GenesNuno Guimaraes, Luis CarricoThe design space of information services evolved from seminal works through a set of prototypical hypermedia systems and matured in open and widely accessible web-based systems. The original concepts of hypermedia systems are now expressed in differe...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

Faceted SearchDaniel TunkelangWe live in an information age that requires us, more than ever, to represent, access, and use information. Over the last several decades, we have developed a modern science and technology for information retrieval, relentlessly pursuing the vision of...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

Exploratory SearchRyen White, Resa RothAs information becomes more ubiquitous and the demands that searchers have on search systems grow, there is a need to support search behaviors beyond simple lookup. Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in...Publication Date: 01/01/2009

Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information SystemsMichael ChristelImprovements in network bandwidth along with dramatic drops in digital storage and processing costs have resulted in the explosive growth of multimedia (combinations of text, image, audio, and video) resources on the Internet and in digital repositor...Publication Date: 01/01/2009